Los clásicos griegos en la Biblioteca Helénica de Adamandios Koraís (1748-1833)

Abstract

This paper analyses the outstanding philological contribution of the enlightened erudite, polygraph and protector of the Greek nation Adamandios Coraes (1748-1833). It focuses mainly on his Hellenic Bibliotheca, a seminal edition of the Greek Classics and due reference guide to them, originally intended «for the training of those Greek readers that study the Greek voice». Such enterprise has become, within his vast production, an invaluable source of study for the reception and inclusion of the classical contents into neo-Greek thought. Additionally, it reveals the existence of some peculiar relationship between ancient and modern Greece —forged in the years previous to this author’s death— that would turn into an important constant in future literary creation.